2073. Robert Southey to John Morgan [fragment], [c. 6 April 1812]

[MS missing] I shall not be in town till the close of the year, & then I shall often find my way to Berners Street.
Remember us to Mrs Morgan & her sister, [1] & if Coleridge be arrived
tell him to write soon [MS torn] drop a tear for Betty Amlett. [2]

[2] John Mayne (1759–1836), ‘Betty
Amlett. An Elegiac Ballad’, line 1, published in Monthly Magazine, 33 (March 1812), 149. It told the story of a woman
sentenced to death for drowning her illegitimate baby. BACK